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Legacies
Up one levelThis collection addresses the political, social, cultural, and rhetorical legacies of the US antislavery movement, primarily from the conclusion of the Civil War forward. The collection is co-edited by Holly Kent (Lehigh University), Joe Lockard (Arizona State University), and Zoe Trodd (Harvard University).
An Address Delivered at the Centennial Anniversary of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery
An 1875 address delivered by African American abolitionist and writer Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
Address to the Colored People
An 1867 speech by Robert Ingersoll in Galesburg, Illinois. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
The Barbarous Decision of the United States Supreme Court Declaring the Civil Rights Act Unconstitutional and Disrobing the Colored Race of All Civil Protection. The Most Cruel and Inhuman Verdict Against a Loyal People in the History of the World.
Addresses by Bishop Henry McNeal Turner, Frederick Douglass and Robert Ingersoll against the 1883 US Supreme Court's overturning of the 1875 Civil Rights Act. Digitized by Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina.
The Coppock Brothers: Heroes of Harper's Ferry
A 1914 essay by US socialist leader Eugene V. Debs. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
Frederick Douglass [Paul Laurence Dunbar]
An 1895 memorial poem by African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
Frederick Douglass [Kelly Miller]
A 1909 essay by African American educator Kelly Miller. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
Frederick Douglass [Elizabeth Cady Stanton]
An 1895 public letter on the occasion of Frederick Douglass' death, by suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
John Brown [Du Bois]
A 1909 selection from African American writer W.E.B. Du Bois. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
John Brown: History's Greatest Hero
A 1907 essay by US socialist leader Eugene V. Debs. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
Mob Murder Must Stop
Report of a 1911 anti-lynching speech by Rev. John Haynes Holmes. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
Minorities versus Majorities
An essay from Emma Goldman's Anarchism and Other Essays (1917). Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
Prison Labor
An 1899 address by socialist leader Eugene Debs. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
Right on the Scaffold, or The Martyrs of 1822
Tract on the Denmark Vesey slave revolt, published in 1901 by Archibald Henry Grimké. Digitized by Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina.
Sonnets to the Memory of Frederick Douglass
Memorial sonnets for Frederick Douglass by abolitionist Theodore Tilton. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
A Torch for Tomorrow: Civil Rights Protest Literature and the Historical Memory of Abolitionism
A video of an April 2008 talk by Zoe Trodd (Harvard University) on "A Torch for Tomorrow: Civil Rights Protest Literature and the Historical Memory of Abolitionism", at Arizona State University.
Woman's Rights Tract no. 1: Speech by Wendell Phillips
An 1851 speech by abolitionist Wendell Phillips at the 2nd Woman's Rights Convention, in Worcester, Massachusetts. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.